The CTA today will begin e-mailing 53,000 riders enrolled in pre-tax transit benefits programs reminding them to activate their Ventra card so they can use their November benefits, the agency said today.

Starting Friday, benefits from these programs, which enable riders to purchase their CTA passes with pre-tax money, will load onto Ventra cards. For those who have not yet activated their Ventra cards, the CTA will allow these riders to continue to use their Chicago Cards until Nov. 15.

Two suburban men assaulted and robbed a panhandler on the South Side on Monday—then came back and beat him again after one of the men left his cellphone at the scene, prosecutors said at a court hearing Tuesday.

A day after Trevor Noah was declared the new host of "The Daily Show," his graphic tweets targeting women and Jews are causing a social media backlash and Comedy Central is defending its newest late-night star.

Ronit Bezalel has seen just about everything on Chicago bike paths, but on her Monday morning commute she saw something that shocked even her: A silver Buick, almost unscathed, in the middle of the bike path.